Response to Sapping the Well

To All,
Paso Robles has been dealing with heavy water issues also as many of you know. National Geographic is filming a great story of their area right now. Financiers/vulture capitalists have been buying up vineyards for the water rights, wine grapes are just the window dressing, and selling it back to the residents. The rush to construct vineyards there left many wells dried up and the huge vineyard owners drilled deeply which home owners could not afford to do. It caused a real estate downfall and the supervisors enacted a moratorium on irrigated vineyards for 2 years then extended for another year.

WWW (Wine & Water Watch) has this on their website, www.winewaterwatch.org. View the video short, pretty shocking…. it could happen here in a heart beat. A few years of drought is all it takes.